Mastodawn

Sometimes recording my own attempts at music feels like the positive side of writing a thesis:

I'm not trying to learn something new here, I'm trying to combine everything I have learned so far into one big new thing.

Like: Oh, this perhaps could do with some piano in the background, so let me just try this piano here… not playing anything fancy, aiming at playing everything easily. And a drone would be nice, so which synth is the one with the fat bottom? It's the Juno 106, usually. Replacing the noisy chorus by TAL Chorus 60, adding some stereo delay by Harrison, which I configured to be a replica of the Yamaha 01v96i stereo delay I use when playing things live for myself at home. I only use processing that has become a routine some time ago.

Results are going to end up on #Bandcamp somewhen this year, see https://nielsonaut.bandcamp.com

#Recording #AmbientMusic #NoiseMusic #Music #Musik #Piano #Microphone #Shure #ShureKSM141 #ExperimentalMusic

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Nielso May 27

🧵 Yet another way to #drone… feeding a #YamahaPSR 36 via an #octaver by #tcElectronics into a #SomaCosmos.

This is perhaps the most stupid and most shitty #synthesizer I own and it's fun. In fact, most people would not even dare to call it a synthesizer. Its drums are poor samples, but its “digital synthesizer” actually is a very stripped-down and noisy #DX7 that even allows for some sound tweaking!

I found this thing by accident when my wife and I were invited to play at an event, and it turned out there wasn't anything like the piano they had promised, but there was such a PSR and a mini guitar amp. I was so intrigued I kept watching the used market for months until I found one for not even the price of the flight case surrounding it.

I really love high end audio, but I think one also has to get over this and go back to “whatever works” – there's so much fun to be had.

Follow me on Bandcamp, there's gonna be a release including this later this year. https://nielsonaut.bandcamp.com

#yamaha #recording

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Herr Irrtum! 🔊

@nielso

Ah shite.
Just 5 chars of alt text missing Nielso. Can't be that hard cannit? ;)

It'd make this post (and place) so much more friendly, it won't hurt and on top of it I'd boost it like crazy as a total Yamaha PSR freak that I am.

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Nielso 6d ago

@herr_irrtum

At least you're not copy-pasting the very same passive-aggressive text that reminds me of Jehova's Witnesses door-to-door mission, reading the very same bible verse to you over and over again.

Which, if the only reply to my toots about making music, shows that these people do not really care about my toots at all, they just want to be on their mission.

Having been an editor for simple language however I think it's way harder to do this in a way that acually does help, so those on their mission actually don't care about visually impared folks either, they're just… on their mission.

So it's not about boosting toots, it's about ego mostly.

#Alt4you